Joy Prior
Professor Harris
2 November 2009
Response #9
Thesis: Dairy is a economical and practical way to obtain essential vitamins and minerals in a balanced diet. Recent dietary guidelines that entirely substitute milk with plant based products for protein, vitamin, and calcium are illogical. In the past decade research shows a balanced diet is esential to eliminating cancer, diabeties, and lactose intolerance., eliminating milk is not the solution.
Out line
The China Study: What brought all of these concerns to my mind
Growing up on a Dairy Farm: personal experience with dairy
Economical
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“By June 1940, federal funds were allocated to provide milk for children in 15 Chicago elementary schools. The price to children was 1 cent per half-pint, with subsidies from private donations available for those who could not pay. The half-pint container of milk became a lunchtime staple for millions of North American children in 1943, when the milk program was made part of the federal school lunch program.”
“Milk and other dairy products contribute > 70% of the calcium intake in the United States.”
“A policy that promotes calcium supplements as a dietary alternative for children brings other problems, as well. For many families, it would represent an additional expense they could not afford
Practical
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Bioavailability refers to the amount of calcium available for use by the body and that is dependent, in part, on both the calcium load and substances in food that bind calcium. The calcium in milk is ~ 30% bioavailable.( n40) Of the 300 mg of calcium in a glass of milk, 90 mg would expected to be absorbed. By comparison, accounting for calcium load size, to absorb that amount of calcium from broccoli, a vegetable in which calcium is highly bioavailable, it would be necessary to consume two and one fourth cups”
“A cup of spinach, for example, provides > 240 mg of calcium, but to absorb an amount of calcium equal to that in milk, it would be necessary to consume over 8 cups.”
Dairy Protein
“Get Big: The Science of Muscle; Milk Beats Soy.” Mens Fitness. 33.6 (2002): 28. Print
Vitamins
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
“From our study results, it is not possible to conclude whether the calcium content of milk or the combined effect of its components caused the beneficial effect of milk supplementation. The supplementation admittedly resulted in significantly higher than usual intakes of vitamin D, protein, calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, zinc, and a range of other micronutrients. Theoretically, it is possible that a protein and carbohydrate food source will stimulate secretion of insulin-like factor, insulin, and amylin and thus contribute to increases in BMD
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Milk is an inexpensive source of high-quality protein and provides 31% of the riboflavin in the American diet. Fluid milk is also routinely fortified with vitamins A and vitamin D. In fact, milk is the only significant food source of Vitamin D, a nutrient critical to the utilization of calcium that is particularly important in winter months.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Casein, which makes up 87% of cow’s milk protein, promoted all stages of the cancer process. What type of protein did not promote cancer, even at high levels of intake? The safe proteins were from plants, including wheat and soy. (5)
Calcium from Dairy for infants
Steichen, J., R. Tsang. “Bone Mineralization and Growth in Term Infants Fed soy-based or cow milk-based formula.” Pediatrics. 110.5 (2009): 687-692. Print.
“Group 1 infants had significantly lower BMC and BMC/BW at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of age (P<0.05 to P<0.0001) compared with group 2 infants, but their values were similar to those in previously studied infants receiving human milk with vitamin D supplementation.”
Alternative Calcium Sources
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines 2000, the language reads Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese Group (Milk Group), and a footnote explains that ". . . one cup of soy-based beverage with added calcium is an option for those who prefer a nondairy source of calcium”
China diet lacking sufficient Calcium
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
“OSTEOPOROSIS IS a major public health problem in Asia. Projections suggest that more than one-half of all hip fractures will occur in this region by the year 2050.(1) In Hong Kong, the incidence of hip fracture has increased 3-fold over the last 30 years.(2) The hip fracture rates in Hong Kong are similar to those in Britain.(2) However, the Asian diet is low in calcium content, and we have previously shown that a low calcium intake may be associated with the risk of both hip(3) and vertebral fracture.
Lack of Calcium in children’s diet
Black, Ruth E., Sheila M Williams, Ianthe E Jones and Ailsa Goulding. "Children who avoid drinking cow milk have low dietary calcium intakes and poor bone health1,2,3." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 675-680 76.6 (2002). Print.
“milk avoiders were shorter had smaller skeletons and a lower total-body bone mineral content
In growing children, long-term avoidance of cow milk is associated with small stature and poor bone health. This is a major concern that warrants further study.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Calcium intake is already insufficient in the United States, where osteoporosis is a major and rapidly growing public health problem.
“a child would need to drink 3 cups of juice to obtain the amount in 3 cups of milk. According to the most recently available data, only 1 in 5 elementary school age children consumes any citrus juice and on average, the amount consumed is under 2 ounces.( n46) There are no data as to how much of the juice consumed by children is calcium-fortified.
Cancer
Jacobsen, Bjarne K., Synnove F. Knutsen, Gary E Fraser. “Does High Soy Milk Intake Reduce Prostate Cancer Incidence? The Adventist Health Study.” Cancer Causes and Control. 9.6 (1998): 1573-7225. Web.
“Our study suggests that men with high consumption of soy milk are at reduced risk of prostate cancer. Possible associations between soy bean products, isoflavones and prostate cancer risk should be further investigated.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines 2000, the language reads Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese Group (Milk Group), and a footnote explains that ". . . one cup of soy-based beverage with added calcium is an option for those who prefer a nondairy source of calcium”
Type 1 diabeties
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087.
Print.
“In 2000, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International issued a position paper concluding that there is no compelling scientific evidence to support the claim that drinking cow's milk increases the risk of type 1 diabetes in children or adults”
Study in Finland “Although the broad age range of the subjects in this study is wide and the data do not permit an examination of the relationship between time of milk exposure and age at onset of the disease, these data support the hypothesis that there may be a subset of at-risk children for whom cow's milk consumption promotes the development of type 1 diabetes.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Cows milk may cause one of the most devastating disease (diabetes 1) that can befall a child. For obvious reasons, this is one of the most contentious issues in nutrition today. (187)
Lactose intolerance
Marchiondo, Kathleen. "Lactose Intolerance: A Nursing Perspective." MEDSURG Nursing 18.1 (2009): 9-32. Print.
“Although not a serious threat to health, lactose intolerance causes discomfort, anxiety, and embarrassment for a large number of people worldwide”
“In fact, the majority of people with lactose malabsorption can consume small-to-moderate quantities of dairy products
without developing symptoms of intolerance
“Lactose intolerance, unlike milk allergy, does not involve the immune system, is treated easily and is not life-threatening
“Up to 62% who believe they are lactose intolerant actually digest lactose normally, but may have sensitivity to other types of food.”
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
“Dietary Guidelines are insensitive to the health needs of minorities, 75% of whom worldwide experience some degree of lactose intolerance,
“Lactose intolerance is the inability to completely digest lactose, the sugar in milk. In the small intestine, the enzyme lactase splits lactose into 2 simple sugars, glucose and galactose. If insufficient lactase is produced and lactose is not digested, it travels to the large intestine where it is fermented by bacteria into organic acids and gas. This gas, along with the osmotic effect of unabsorbed lactose and water, is responsible for the symptoms of lactose intolerance, which can include abdominal fullness, cramps, and diarrhea”
“25% of American adults experience some degree of lactose intolerance.
“Of note is that in double-blind studies, the relationship between the existence of lactase deficiency and symptoms reported is inconsistent.
“Simply anticipating the possibility of discomfort may cause individuals to experience abdominal pain and cramping after eating dairy foods.
“African tribesmen, such as the Masai > 20 years ago. Among these people, the prevalence of lactose intolerance has been estimated to reach over 60%, but they routinely consume considerable quantities of milk without symptoms
Balanced Diet
Larson, Roberta. “The American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide.” American Dietetic Association (2002) Print.
“Panama’s food guide advises sufficient root vegetables. Zimbabwe’s four-food-group square includes insects as one protein-rich food.”
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.” (5)
Bibliography
Golberg, Jeanne P., Sara C. Folta, Aviva Must. "Milk: Can a "Good" Food Be So Bad?" Pediatrics 110.4 (2002): 286-087. Print.
This was my best source. There was so much information in this article that helped me to get my act together. During the entire article they addressed the concerns that I had about milk, and wither or not it was healthy. This became the spring board of my research. I got most of my quotes from this article, and understood my topic fully after reading it.
Black, Ruth E., Sheila M Williams, Ianthe E Jones and Ailsa Goulding. "Children who avoid drinking cow milk have low dietary calcium intakes and poor bone health1,2,3." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 675-680 76.6 (2002). Print.
I learned a little about children and their lactose intake. This helped me to understand how important it is that children get calcium. My ideas also began to evolve into the reality that it is not if the food is good or bad, but if the vitamins and minerals in the food supply the right needs. After reading this article I realized that milk is a convenient way to get in all of the vitamins and minerals we need in one day.
Marchiondo, Kathleen. "Lactose Intolerance: A Nursing Perspective." MEDSURG Nursing 18.1 (2009): 9-32. Print.
Lactose intolerance is different than being allergic to milk. It should be treated differently too, and avoiding milk is actually the “wrong” way to cure the problem. Most people who are lactose intolerance do not have the symptoms of being lactose intolerance. They still drink milk, and seem fine. It was refreshing to get a nurses point of view, and how to explain healthy life choices. Most of the article talked about reintroducing milk into someone’s diet. I found it helpful, but not substantial data.
Larson, Roberta. “The American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide.” American Dietetic Association (2002) Print.
This article made me realize that other countries have food pyramids, and that no country has the best. There are so many attacks against the food guide pyramid that I was really questioning it, but now I think that it is basically like any diet guidelines. They are all healthy suggestions, and should be treated as such.
“Get Big: The Science of Muscle; Milk Beats Soy.” Mens Fitness. 33.6 (2002): 28. Print.
This was basically just a passage about how milk helped to build muscle in a group of men working out. There were no real numbers in the paper, and that made it difficult for me to really want to use the information. I did find it helpful though. It opened my research to the idea that milk is good for not just bones but muscles too.
Schrezemmeir, Jurgen, Alexandra Jagla. “Milk and Diabetes.” American College of Nutrition. 9002.19 (2000): 176S-190S. Print.
In this article I read about the realationship between milk and diabetes. It was helpful for my paper because there was observed no true conection. What I realized was that all studies need to be repeated and redone before they can be proven, or become factual. While I browsed I found more studies not supporting diabetes and milk being the cause, but I this article seemed to be the most comprehensive.
Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chineses University of Hong Kong. “Milk Supplementation of the Diet of Postmenopausal Chinese Women on a Low Calcium Intake Retards Bone Loss.” Bone and Mineral Research. 16.9 (2001): 1704-1709. Print.
This was a great article because it talked about the problems in the china diet. That there were many things missing in the china diet, and this was causing health problems. I want to use a lot of the quotes from here to support that idea that American scientist are not as biased as they might be portrayed. Chinese scientist think that there is something in milk that will help their society to live better, and healthier. I want to use a lot of this information to give ethos to milk.
Campbell, Colin T., Thomas M. Campbell. “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” BenBella Books. (2005)
“Campbell urges readers to eliminate meat and dairy from their diets to achieve better health and longevity. His study will add a new dimension to the public debate about the role of plant-based foods in the human diet
I used this book to understand what I was up against. It was helpful to get a base of what I should say, and what the other side was thinking. The valid concerns in this book opened up my mind, and I started making the connections between why this is such an issue. There are valid concerns on both sides of the argument. Milk has a lot of things in it that we don’t understand. What I found a little frustrating was that the book addressed protein more than milk, and I did not need information on protein.
Steichen, J., R. Tsang. “Bone Mineralization and Growth in Term Infants Fed soy-based or cow milk-based formula.” Pediatrics. 110.5 (2009): 687-692. Print.
This study was a good one for my paper because it compared soy milk to cow milk. There were a few quotes that I could use about how soy milk is not the same as cow milk and that infants who were given soy milk actually had lower bone mass than the babies who drank a cow based milk. This was helpful information because soy milk is the substitute for cow milk in the vegan diet, and it seems that even soy milk has it’s down falls.
Jacobsen, Bjarne K., Synnove F. Knutsen, Gary E Fraser. “Does High Soy Milk Intake Reduce Prostate Cancer Incidence? The Adventist Health Study.” Cancer Causes and Control. 9.6 (1998): 1573-7225. Web.
I found this article helpful because it supported soy milk in the adult diet. I realized that my paper is not to state that soy milk is bad. I want to show that milk is good. This helped me to support the idea that a well balanced diet with plant based products and milk is the best idea. Eliminating one is were the problem comes in. I thought that this information would be good to close with to illustrate that I am not attacking the idea of plant based products, but supporting a diet with milk.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
fire side
Elder Uckdorf came and talked to us... Here are my notes
The ugly duckline story
unushually large, and ugly
but it can swin, and so it simply assumes that the poor thing is disfigured
desides that it would be better for his family if he ran away
did run away, almost died, sees swans and is afraid the swans might kill him because he is so ugly
He follows them, and then sees the reflection of a beautiful swan, he is the most beautifl
HE HAS DISCOVERED WHO HE IS TRULY IS
confusion comes from not understanding who we are
to many go through life not knowing their potential beyond imagination
discovering who we are is apart of life
were? who? why? understand with heart and soul, not mind only
questions that reach into spritual things require spirtitual help
Church members know them because: power of the Holy Ghost (God gives freely to his children)
this allows you to see your own reflection in the water
"more beautiful and glories than you can imagine"
this knowledge: change present, future, contance
Questions affecting young saints around the world
I am unhappy and depressed. Some times the world looks like it would be a better place without me...
get help for yourself, and if you know someone who needs help be a true friend
"To be or not to be. That is the question," Shakespear was wrong
there are other options beyond that contridiction
i would have Hamlet turn to the audiance and say "knowing that i am child of God. What need I do and be to live up to that poential?That is the quetstion."
remember were you came from, and were you are going next time you get sad; these things are conected to serving God, and fellow man
YOU don't need to wait for permission to fill your heart with happiness
dance, study, work, serve, ex. all together. GET TO KNOW PEOPLE
I am so lonely. Will I ever find my soul mate?
"I have a number of things I want to say on this subject, but lets start... lets start"
the one person who is perfect for you
women who discovers a geni bottle; askes for world peace, geni says anything but that
askes instead for someone who is... the geni considers that for a moment and then desideds to do something about world peace
I think that I feel in love with my wife the first moment I saw her; but if she married someone else
she was not the one chance of happiness, and I was not hers
No one is perfect; the only perfect people you might know are those you don't know very well
do not lower your standards; if someone is willing to acept me imperfect as I am then I should put up with theirs
must creat perfection together; falling in love is a wonderful feeling
that magic spark needs continuned sparking; the couple makes it happen; it takes work
Once you committe to being married your spose becomes your soul mate, and you must keep it that way. The search for a soul mate is over when you have made that choice.
Years after Uckdorf first met his wife she said, "you have matured scence the last time I saw you," with this news I moved quickly
GET TO KNOW MANY OF THEM, is the secret
JUST ASK don't simply HANG OUT, nothing wrong, but you need to get to know individuals
there are those of you in the church who will never marry, there is no way to identify with this great dispear
prayers are heard, I don't know why some are answered one way and not others, the path is drawn continue
"I say Joyfully endure to the end,"
Do not wait for someone to make yourlife complete, and seek fullfillment in serving and improving yourself
Can I remain faithful?
Inter tropical transversion; billowing colums of clouds, could not look at them without being impressed with the lightening and darkness
AVOID THEM, no matter how beautiful those storms look they can kill you
Temptation would not be temptation if it did not look inticing, and fun
DO NOT FLIRT WITH PORNOGRAPHY
Doubts in questions and principles?
Is it allright to have questions about the church
Inquiry leads to truth: Joseph Smith
You will rearly find revelation with out a question procedding it
God can give us answers to questions we ask, and the answers to questions we should have asked
Some might feel embarased
it is a precurser of growth; ask with real intent; Holy Ghost will answer
DOUBT NOT, when you get an answer bulild upon it and let it become solid
"my thoughts are not your thoughts... but my thoughts are higher than you thoughts,"
Asking questions; excersise your faith everday, apply those principles you have in question
There are going to be voices telling you that you are an ugly duckline.
You are not ordinary beings, but glorious and eternal
REMBER WHO YOU ARE, WERE YOU CAME FROM, AND WERE YOU ARE GOING
God speaks to you through prophets, the Chruch is directed by Jesus
Today I may speak to you with imperfection, and in a German acent
What you feel in your heat is from a member of the God Head
What you must do and be to see your true refelction
The ugly duckline story
unushually large, and ugly
but it can swin, and so it simply assumes that the poor thing is disfigured
desides that it would be better for his family if he ran away
did run away, almost died, sees swans and is afraid the swans might kill him because he is so ugly
He follows them, and then sees the reflection of a beautiful swan, he is the most beautifl
HE HAS DISCOVERED WHO HE IS TRULY IS
confusion comes from not understanding who we are
to many go through life not knowing their potential beyond imagination
discovering who we are is apart of life
were? who? why? understand with heart and soul, not mind only
questions that reach into spritual things require spirtitual help
Church members know them because: power of the Holy Ghost (God gives freely to his children)
this allows you to see your own reflection in the water
"more beautiful and glories than you can imagine"
this knowledge: change present, future, contance
Questions affecting young saints around the world
I am unhappy and depressed. Some times the world looks like it would be a better place without me...
get help for yourself, and if you know someone who needs help be a true friend
"To be or not to be. That is the question," Shakespear was wrong
there are other options beyond that contridiction
i would have Hamlet turn to the audiance and say "knowing that i am child of God. What need I do and be to live up to that poential?That is the quetstion."
remember were you came from, and were you are going next time you get sad; these things are conected to serving God, and fellow man
YOU don't need to wait for permission to fill your heart with happiness
dance, study, work, serve, ex. all together. GET TO KNOW PEOPLE
I am so lonely. Will I ever find my soul mate?
"I have a number of things I want to say on this subject, but lets start... lets start"
the one person who is perfect for you
women who discovers a geni bottle; askes for world peace, geni says anything but that
askes instead for someone who is... the geni considers that for a moment and then desideds to do something about world peace
I think that I feel in love with my wife the first moment I saw her; but if she married someone else
she was not the one chance of happiness, and I was not hers
No one is perfect; the only perfect people you might know are those you don't know very well
do not lower your standards; if someone is willing to acept me imperfect as I am then I should put up with theirs
must creat perfection together; falling in love is a wonderful feeling
that magic spark needs continuned sparking; the couple makes it happen; it takes work
Once you committe to being married your spose becomes your soul mate, and you must keep it that way. The search for a soul mate is over when you have made that choice.
Years after Uckdorf first met his wife she said, "you have matured scence the last time I saw you," with this news I moved quickly
GET TO KNOW MANY OF THEM, is the secret
JUST ASK don't simply HANG OUT, nothing wrong, but you need to get to know individuals
there are those of you in the church who will never marry, there is no way to identify with this great dispear
prayers are heard, I don't know why some are answered one way and not others, the path is drawn continue
"I say Joyfully endure to the end,"
Do not wait for someone to make yourlife complete, and seek fullfillment in serving and improving yourself
Can I remain faithful?
Inter tropical transversion; billowing colums of clouds, could not look at them without being impressed with the lightening and darkness
AVOID THEM, no matter how beautiful those storms look they can kill you
Temptation would not be temptation if it did not look inticing, and fun
DO NOT FLIRT WITH PORNOGRAPHY
Doubts in questions and principles?
Is it allright to have questions about the church
Inquiry leads to truth: Joseph Smith
You will rearly find revelation with out a question procedding it
God can give us answers to questions we ask, and the answers to questions we should have asked
Some might feel embarased
it is a precurser of growth; ask with real intent; Holy Ghost will answer
DOUBT NOT, when you get an answer bulild upon it and let it become solid
"my thoughts are not your thoughts... but my thoughts are higher than you thoughts,"
Asking questions; excersise your faith everday, apply those principles you have in question
There are going to be voices telling you that you are an ugly duckline.
You are not ordinary beings, but glorious and eternal
REMBER WHO YOU ARE, WERE YOU CAME FROM, AND WERE YOU ARE GOING
God speaks to you through prophets, the Chruch is directed by Jesus
Today I may speak to you with imperfection, and in a German acent
What you feel in your heat is from a member of the God Head
What you must do and be to see your true refelction
Darwin and God
Putting God into Darwin was such an eye opening lecture for me. I have been turning the idea of evolution over in my mind for the past few months that I have been at BYU. Earlier this month I even asked my Book of Mormon professor if there was any doctrinal or quotes from church officials about evolution. He gave me a pamphlet that had several quotations emphasizing that God tells us why we were created, and that we were created, but he dose not explicitly say how or when. The basic idea was that these two things (how and when humans were created) did not relate to the plan of salvation. I agreed to the point that there are other doctrinal subjects more prevalent, and I should possibly spend more time studying them out. Yet, the theory of evolution remained on the edge of the thought, and today I feel like there were lots of answers.
First I appreciated the distinction between faith and science. I must clarify this point as not the superstition of science and faith, but the distinction. The last section of his slideshow he explained that we (mankind) has the rights to interpret scientific evidence how we want. In order to fully understand truth and in essence God instead of ignoring scientific evidence I need to interpret ate it.
I was so glad that he brought evidence to the table. The genetics slides that were explained on my thinking level, pictures of bones, era bones were from, fused human genetics, and the proper definition of Devine Intervention. There is no way to deny the facts, and I would not want to. Please understand that I was not anti-evolution prior to this lecture. I was completely lost.
There seemed to be no actual evidence for Devine Intervention. To top it off they lied. I understand that the lecturer’s perspective is that Devine Intervention is wrong, and so he want to portray them as wrong, but the various books changed the names and ignored evidence was embarrassing.
What struck me the most was the clarification of what a genetic mistake is. When the lecturer broke down a species would become extinct under the theory of evolution if it did not mutate, or evolve I realized that is a Godly principle. If something or more clearly someone does not evolve themselves to become better, enrich their life, and get ride of unneeded attributes they fall behind and become “extinct”. Evolution would fit into God’s plan. I still want to think it all out, because lets face it I got an entire life to think about it. I only listened to one very educated source today, and there are so many more places to learn about evolution and creation. Catch up with me in a few thousand years when I am a little more divine and I will let you know what I have figured out about the two theories.
First I appreciated the distinction between faith and science. I must clarify this point as not the superstition of science and faith, but the distinction. The last section of his slideshow he explained that we (mankind) has the rights to interpret scientific evidence how we want. In order to fully understand truth and in essence God instead of ignoring scientific evidence I need to interpret ate it.
I was so glad that he brought evidence to the table. The genetics slides that were explained on my thinking level, pictures of bones, era bones were from, fused human genetics, and the proper definition of Devine Intervention. There is no way to deny the facts, and I would not want to. Please understand that I was not anti-evolution prior to this lecture. I was completely lost.
There seemed to be no actual evidence for Devine Intervention. To top it off they lied. I understand that the lecturer’s perspective is that Devine Intervention is wrong, and so he want to portray them as wrong, but the various books changed the names and ignored evidence was embarrassing.
What struck me the most was the clarification of what a genetic mistake is. When the lecturer broke down a species would become extinct under the theory of evolution if it did not mutate, or evolve I realized that is a Godly principle. If something or more clearly someone does not evolve themselves to become better, enrich their life, and get ride of unneeded attributes they fall behind and become “extinct”. Evolution would fit into God’s plan. I still want to think it all out, because lets face it I got an entire life to think about it. I only listened to one very educated source today, and there are so many more places to learn about evolution and creation. Catch up with me in a few thousand years when I am a little more divine and I will let you know what I have figured out about the two theories.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Adam Smith
Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations, and in turned the global economics into a new direction. Prior to the development of the Market system nations practiced Mercantilism. The idea that a nations wealth depended on how much the king had. The more in the royal bank the wealthier the nation was. Consequently wealthily nations had set policies, planned economic durability, and regulated trade to ensure that their exports did not exceed the nations imports. When Adam Smith introduced the Market system in his theory book Wealth of Nations it was like questioning that people need food to live.
Mercantilism had Kings sitting in gold palaces and eating off of gold plates with engraved silverware, and the common people living in dung huts. Yes, the nation had wealth, but the lifestyle of the people was poor. Adam believed that common people had the right to wealth, and that could come from the lifestyle they lived. His concept of per capita income, were the per capita welfare of the people was measured a nations wealth was a shock to the expanding world.
“The invisible” hand controls the market system, and people are driven by what they want when they make a purchase. In a market system both people feel that they win in the trade. If I want to buy a laptop because I need to type my homework I buy one from Mackintosh. Although I am giving up my money or “wealth” I am happy because my way of living has improved and I feel that the trade of $2,000 was worth the easy of writing my college papers in my apartment. It was based on the ideal that people have the freedom to chose what they want. Although Adam recognized both parties will win in a fair trade he understood that some would “win” more than others by terms of wealth. My laptop for example, I am out $2,000 and Mackintosh earned $2,000. Some would consider him the winner in this trade, but my laptop improved my way of living and so I maintain my wealth.
It is important to note that debt was not in Adam Smith’s vision of Market system. Debt is a bondage, and decreases freedom. Now there are some debts aka student loans, mortgages, ex. That have a specific investment, and improve ones way of living. These are what are needed to improve our way of life. Not all debt is an investment and will decrease our wealth and eventually decay our freedom. Making the distinction between “good” debt and “bad” debt is a personal choice and should be taken with delicate concern. I am not a financial assistant, just a college student.
Adam Smith opened the door for the market system I am accustom to: exchanges made on mutual interest, both parties are happy, consumer seventy, voluntary exchange, market determining what will sale, and the base of what sales being the consumer’s interest. His idea was introduced and flourished in the new world. A place were freedom was delicately blossoming. Although the United States had established freedoms in the constitution and Declaration of Independence there was no mention of economic freedom in either document. I can not even think of America without a free market economy. All because Adam Smith wrote down his thoughts and published them.
Mercantilism had Kings sitting in gold palaces and eating off of gold plates with engraved silverware, and the common people living in dung huts. Yes, the nation had wealth, but the lifestyle of the people was poor. Adam believed that common people had the right to wealth, and that could come from the lifestyle they lived. His concept of per capita income, were the per capita welfare of the people was measured a nations wealth was a shock to the expanding world.
“The invisible” hand controls the market system, and people are driven by what they want when they make a purchase. In a market system both people feel that they win in the trade. If I want to buy a laptop because I need to type my homework I buy one from Mackintosh. Although I am giving up my money or “wealth” I am happy because my way of living has improved and I feel that the trade of $2,000 was worth the easy of writing my college papers in my apartment. It was based on the ideal that people have the freedom to chose what they want. Although Adam recognized both parties will win in a fair trade he understood that some would “win” more than others by terms of wealth. My laptop for example, I am out $2,000 and Mackintosh earned $2,000. Some would consider him the winner in this trade, but my laptop improved my way of living and so I maintain my wealth.
It is important to note that debt was not in Adam Smith’s vision of Market system. Debt is a bondage, and decreases freedom. Now there are some debts aka student loans, mortgages, ex. That have a specific investment, and improve ones way of living. These are what are needed to improve our way of life. Not all debt is an investment and will decrease our wealth and eventually decay our freedom. Making the distinction between “good” debt and “bad” debt is a personal choice and should be taken with delicate concern. I am not a financial assistant, just a college student.
Adam Smith opened the door for the market system I am accustom to: exchanges made on mutual interest, both parties are happy, consumer seventy, voluntary exchange, market determining what will sale, and the base of what sales being the consumer’s interest. His idea was introduced and flourished in the new world. A place were freedom was delicately blossoming. Although the United States had established freedoms in the constitution and Declaration of Independence there was no mention of economic freedom in either document. I can not even think of America without a free market economy. All because Adam Smith wrote down his thoughts and published them.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Crandall Printing Museum
I had never noticed the red bricked building before. Even with the address scribbled on my history notes and a MapQuest print off I almost drove past it. What an odd assignment? Not that I had any problems with American Heritage being canceled for the entire week so we could visit the museum, but all the same. What was in those red brick walls that would “enrich my learning experience” so much that class should be canceled? After visiting the Crandall Printing Museum on Center street in Provo I knew what my professor found in those small well kept rooms; inspiration.
It started with ancient texts on: animal hide, stone, clay, waved sheep guts, cave walls, and about anything that could preserve information, and inspiration. I imagined myself scribbling on cow hide with animal blood on a stick, and I resolved to never curse slow internet access again. More important I realized if someone had enough dedication to write with dried reeds on soft clay rocks they felt that what they were saying was very important.
The presentation then explained monasteries roll in preserving scriptures. This will all sound ignorant and biased, but prior to this visit I imagined monks as these overweight men with bald heads sitting at a desk scribbling out ancient scriptures that they did not agree with and praying only when other people were around to watch. Don’t worry I would always speckle my scenario with a few monks to slow in the head to do anything besides copy text. I am pretty sure this is inaccurate. For starts monks were not dumb; they fluent in Latin. Next they loved the bible. Really! Not only did they write out the text, but they decorated the Bible with detailed depictions of Christ, saints, and nature. How could you stand sitting at a desk all day drawing pictures in something you did not love.
From there the presentation goes on to the Gutenberg Press. Genies, innovative, imaginative, creative, can I think of enough adjectives to describe Gutenberg? Nope the English language probably does not have enough good words to describe him. Up until now all I heard about Gutenberg was “he invented the first printing press” Well that phrase has a lot more in it than I thought, because he thought of it all in a time when hardly anyone read, wrote, and if they thought you were out of the norm they burned you for being a witch.
Visiting the Crandall Printing Museum helped me realize how much people want to read. Truly read, and write. It made me grateful for their dedication, but also humbled. I was humbled when I realized how much I take for granite. This I just wrote for example… thirty minutes tops, for History credit, I never even had to use ink, and you are reading it. Remarkable! All because someone over four thousand years ago thought that it would be a good idea if they wrote things down, and taught their children to write things down, and formed a language so they could write things down, and now I have it.
It started with ancient texts on: animal hide, stone, clay, waved sheep guts, cave walls, and about anything that could preserve information, and inspiration. I imagined myself scribbling on cow hide with animal blood on a stick, and I resolved to never curse slow internet access again. More important I realized if someone had enough dedication to write with dried reeds on soft clay rocks they felt that what they were saying was very important.
The presentation then explained monasteries roll in preserving scriptures. This will all sound ignorant and biased, but prior to this visit I imagined monks as these overweight men with bald heads sitting at a desk scribbling out ancient scriptures that they did not agree with and praying only when other people were around to watch. Don’t worry I would always speckle my scenario with a few monks to slow in the head to do anything besides copy text. I am pretty sure this is inaccurate. For starts monks were not dumb; they fluent in Latin. Next they loved the bible. Really! Not only did they write out the text, but they decorated the Bible with detailed depictions of Christ, saints, and nature. How could you stand sitting at a desk all day drawing pictures in something you did not love.
From there the presentation goes on to the Gutenberg Press. Genies, innovative, imaginative, creative, can I think of enough adjectives to describe Gutenberg? Nope the English language probably does not have enough good words to describe him. Up until now all I heard about Gutenberg was “he invented the first printing press” Well that phrase has a lot more in it than I thought, because he thought of it all in a time when hardly anyone read, wrote, and if they thought you were out of the norm they burned you for being a witch.
Visiting the Crandall Printing Museum helped me realize how much people want to read. Truly read, and write. It made me grateful for their dedication, but also humbled. I was humbled when I realized how much I take for granite. This I just wrote for example… thirty minutes tops, for History credit, I never even had to use ink, and you are reading it. Remarkable! All because someone over four thousand years ago thought that it would be a good idea if they wrote things down, and taught their children to write things down, and formed a language so they could write things down, and now I have it.
Friday, October 16, 2009
freedom
In American Heritage professor H has been discussing the idea that the more choices you have the more freedom you have. Freedom, something that we Americans take pride in having, but why do we have it. What makes us so different? Why did the Founding Fathers feel this was so important? In class we have continually returned to this example:
Imagine that you walk into a grocery store and there is only one brand of spaghetti sauce on the shelf, better yet, there is only one can of spaghetti sauce left in all of the store you do not have the freedom to chose what type of spaghetti sauce you want.
Now if you really hate I mean hate, like you would rather vomit than have to eat that brand of spaghetti sauce, and you need spaghetti sauce that night for a dinner party what would you logically do? I don’t know about you but I would go to another store and buy the spaghetti sauce that I want. Can you not see the irony though? Simply having the option of going to another store is freedom.
Ok, now imagine that you walk into the other store looking for spaghetti sauce that you like. There on the shelves are hundreds of spaghetti sauces; big tomato chunks, baby diced tomato, garlic or onion chunks. Besides being a little overwhelmed by the hundreds of spaghetti sauces that you did not even know existed you now have lots of options, and in turn you have more freedom.
Not only do you get to chose what brand of you want, but how many should you get? Should you mix brands? Should you get enough only for tonight or some cans for storage? These are all of the questions that you need to answer. You might pass there in the aisle and gather date; how much money you have, how many guests you are having, how much those guest might eat, is any one you invited allergic to something in the sauce. Although these method of collecting data is centered around asking more questions there are concrete answers to these questions that help you decided what you want.
Now that you have settled on what type of spaghetti sauce you want, and how much you are going to get you have to buy it. You can not just stand there all night and all day repeating in your mind what type of sauce you want, but you actually have to purchase it and go through the action.
Simple, but I am not limiting this logical approach to spaghetti sauce things. Making choices on what type of religion you want to associate with, what classes you want to take next semester, deciding a major, getting a house, getting married, going on a mission, taking that job opportunity, the list of life determining questions seems endless, and really depends on were we are in life.
I know that sometimes I feel like I am stuck in one store with the spaghetti sauce that makes me want to vomit, and there are no other choices. The hardest decisions seem to be when you have one spaghetti sauce that you love in your left hand and one that you love just as much in your right hand, but you can only chose one of them.
In Robert Frost’s poem The Road not taken a line I typically over look is “That has made all of the difference,” While turning this line over in my mind, and listening to my professor talk about the Declaration of Independence I realized “that has made all of the difference,” It is important to momentarily take away the line “I took the road less traveled by,” from Robert Frost’s poem. If you repeat the poem in your mind unaware of what path the author acutely took the principle that no matter which path you continue on will make all the difference emerges. Sighing the Declaration of Independence risked the lives, fortunes, and honor of all those men and their families. Looking back it is easy to see the difference that little piece of paper made, but in the vital moment they were risking every thing.
In my life there are choices when I am risking everything. Imagine how dull and unproductive life would be without these choices… there would be no freedom. What I have learned in my American Heritage class is not to be afraid of these choices, but to make them. Once I have settled on something I need to put Singh my name, and commit to it. If I am continually striving for good things, and my motives are pure there is no logical way that I can make the wrong choice as long as I am focused to that ideal. There are choices, freedom, and action; they all interconnect and committee is involved in all of them, “that (will) make all the difference.”
Imagine that you walk into a grocery store and there is only one brand of spaghetti sauce on the shelf, better yet, there is only one can of spaghetti sauce left in all of the store you do not have the freedom to chose what type of spaghetti sauce you want.
Now if you really hate I mean hate, like you would rather vomit than have to eat that brand of spaghetti sauce, and you need spaghetti sauce that night for a dinner party what would you logically do? I don’t know about you but I would go to another store and buy the spaghetti sauce that I want. Can you not see the irony though? Simply having the option of going to another store is freedom.
Ok, now imagine that you walk into the other store looking for spaghetti sauce that you like. There on the shelves are hundreds of spaghetti sauces; big tomato chunks, baby diced tomato, garlic or onion chunks. Besides being a little overwhelmed by the hundreds of spaghetti sauces that you did not even know existed you now have lots of options, and in turn you have more freedom.
Not only do you get to chose what brand of you want, but how many should you get? Should you mix brands? Should you get enough only for tonight or some cans for storage? These are all of the questions that you need to answer. You might pass there in the aisle and gather date; how much money you have, how many guests you are having, how much those guest might eat, is any one you invited allergic to something in the sauce. Although these method of collecting data is centered around asking more questions there are concrete answers to these questions that help you decided what you want.
Now that you have settled on what type of spaghetti sauce you want, and how much you are going to get you have to buy it. You can not just stand there all night and all day repeating in your mind what type of sauce you want, but you actually have to purchase it and go through the action.
Simple, but I am not limiting this logical approach to spaghetti sauce things. Making choices on what type of religion you want to associate with, what classes you want to take next semester, deciding a major, getting a house, getting married, going on a mission, taking that job opportunity, the list of life determining questions seems endless, and really depends on were we are in life.
I know that sometimes I feel like I am stuck in one store with the spaghetti sauce that makes me want to vomit, and there are no other choices. The hardest decisions seem to be when you have one spaghetti sauce that you love in your left hand and one that you love just as much in your right hand, but you can only chose one of them.
In Robert Frost’s poem The Road not taken a line I typically over look is “That has made all of the difference,” While turning this line over in my mind, and listening to my professor talk about the Declaration of Independence I realized “that has made all of the difference,” It is important to momentarily take away the line “I took the road less traveled by,” from Robert Frost’s poem. If you repeat the poem in your mind unaware of what path the author acutely took the principle that no matter which path you continue on will make all the difference emerges. Sighing the Declaration of Independence risked the lives, fortunes, and honor of all those men and their families. Looking back it is easy to see the difference that little piece of paper made, but in the vital moment they were risking every thing.
In my life there are choices when I am risking everything. Imagine how dull and unproductive life would be without these choices… there would be no freedom. What I have learned in my American Heritage class is not to be afraid of these choices, but to make them. Once I have settled on something I need to put Singh my name, and commit to it. If I am continually striving for good things, and my motives are pure there is no logical way that I can make the wrong choice as long as I am focused to that ideal. There are choices, freedom, and action; they all interconnect and committee is involved in all of them, “that (will) make all the difference.”
Monday, October 12, 2009
Promised Land
The Book of Mormon describes the founding of America, and the land of Zion. Many anti-Mormon groups use this as evidence to support that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon. They claim that he was influenced by the social environment of that day to write about his great country “America” in The Book of Mormon. There is no way around it Joseph Smith was in an era were patriotism valued. The man (Joseph Smith) even ran for president. He obviously had some national pride, but that is not the issue we are addressing.
What needs to be looked at is specifically is how The Book of Mormon addresses the American revolution. There are very few verse on the manner, but the one verse that I would like to focus on is in 1 Nephi 13 verses 14.
“And it came to pass that I beheld many multitudes of the Gentiles upon the land of promise;”
The land of promise; Don’t simply assume Joseph Smith felt America was superior to all other lands. The Old and New Testament calls Jerusalem a “the promised land’. Jews following the Koran also believe that Jerusalem is holy. Buddhists have Theravada the school of elders, a land of promised knowledge. Mecca is a holy place for the Islamic faith. In India there is Vaishno Devi a holy cave shrine to Mata. Even in Ireland the have the Blarney stone; if you kiss the stone you are promised to have the gift of speech. All of this points to the idea that there are many areas throughout the world that are promised. In all periods of history religions across the world have promised lands. It is a rather vague term.
Fortunately Ether clarifies what Nephi meant when he referred to America as the promised land in ether chapter 2 verse 9 it reads, “And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fullness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fullness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity.” Summed up America’s promise is that the people are good they will have prosperity, but if not they shall be swept off the face of the earth by the full wrath of God.
According to the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson the American promise is “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” This promise has a little different of a connotation; God created people equal, and we try to allow that in America by promising Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is true both promises mention God, but one talks about democracy and God giving equality while the other describes God destroying and blessing his people. When Jefferson wrote his promise he was addressing the King of England, and attempting to prove that all citizens deserved privileges. Compared to Nephi and Ether who were compiling a book of records for their future generations. The audience does not simply give them different voice but revels what they valued.
Nephi and Ether did not value the same ideals as Jefferson, because they were from a different generation than Jefferson. What they wanted people to understand was that if you do not listen to God he will destroy you. Jefferson focused seems to be making an ethos argument, proving his credibility as a citizen to have life, liberty, and the permute of happiness. Can we agree that they are two different promises? To different people? From different people? With different perspectives?
Yes, The Book of Mormon refers to America as the promised land, but not in the modern connotation of the phrase. Joseph Smith was translating and ancient text, and therefore the values and ideals were from an ancient author. Read all you want from the internet from who knows who about the Book of Mormon, and you wont understand it. I would recommend picking up the book and just reading it for yourself. Get to the direct source of all the disputes against and for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and just read the few hundred pages instead of browsing the internet Googling questions and researching credible authors.
What needs to be looked at is specifically is how The Book of Mormon addresses the American revolution. There are very few verse on the manner, but the one verse that I would like to focus on is in 1 Nephi 13 verses 14.
“And it came to pass that I beheld many multitudes of the Gentiles upon the land of promise;”
The land of promise; Don’t simply assume Joseph Smith felt America was superior to all other lands. The Old and New Testament calls Jerusalem a “the promised land’. Jews following the Koran also believe that Jerusalem is holy. Buddhists have Theravada the school of elders, a land of promised knowledge. Mecca is a holy place for the Islamic faith. In India there is Vaishno Devi a holy cave shrine to Mata. Even in Ireland the have the Blarney stone; if you kiss the stone you are promised to have the gift of speech. All of this points to the idea that there are many areas throughout the world that are promised. In all periods of history religions across the world have promised lands. It is a rather vague term.
Fortunately Ether clarifies what Nephi meant when he referred to America as the promised land in ether chapter 2 verse 9 it reads, “And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fullness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fullness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity.” Summed up America’s promise is that the people are good they will have prosperity, but if not they shall be swept off the face of the earth by the full wrath of God.
According to the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson the American promise is “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” This promise has a little different of a connotation; God created people equal, and we try to allow that in America by promising Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
It is true both promises mention God, but one talks about democracy and God giving equality while the other describes God destroying and blessing his people. When Jefferson wrote his promise he was addressing the King of England, and attempting to prove that all citizens deserved privileges. Compared to Nephi and Ether who were compiling a book of records for their future generations. The audience does not simply give them different voice but revels what they valued.
Nephi and Ether did not value the same ideals as Jefferson, because they were from a different generation than Jefferson. What they wanted people to understand was that if you do not listen to God he will destroy you. Jefferson focused seems to be making an ethos argument, proving his credibility as a citizen to have life, liberty, and the permute of happiness. Can we agree that they are two different promises? To different people? From different people? With different perspectives?
Yes, The Book of Mormon refers to America as the promised land, but not in the modern connotation of the phrase. Joseph Smith was translating and ancient text, and therefore the values and ideals were from an ancient author. Read all you want from the internet from who knows who about the Book of Mormon, and you wont understand it. I would recommend picking up the book and just reading it for yourself. Get to the direct source of all the disputes against and for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and just read the few hundred pages instead of browsing the internet Googling questions and researching credible authors.
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